title: [Pathophysiologic aspects of sudden cardiac death in ischemic heart disease].
abstract: Ischaemic heart disease and its consequences respond to 80% of sudden cardiac deaths in the industrialized countries of the world. They are the most frequent cause also in other regions of the world, namely in those where the prevalence of the ischaemic heart disease is low. Despite the known relation between the ischaemic heart disease and sudden cardiac death, the complex knowledge on the relation is not available yet. The decrease in occurrence of sudden cardiac death in populations requires approaches which in general include three areas: 1. primary preventive programmes aimed at the decrease in the occurrence of heart diseases on the whole and especially in that of ischaemic heart disease, 2. identification of groups at high risk 3. profylactic therapy of persons at high risk. The progressing research in this area led to several information issues, improvement of therapeutic possibilities in many patients at high risk of sudden cardiac death. Despite this fact, the frequency of sudden cardiac death represents a significant medical, economical and social problem, since many questions regarding the causes and preventive possibilities still remain unclear.
authors.affiliation: II. interná klinika Lekárskej fakulty Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave, Slovakia.
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authors.lastname: Dukát
mesh_terms: D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*
vernacular_title: Patofyziologické aspekty náhlej srdcovej smrti pri ischemickej chorobe srdca.